Petersen, Melody, 1964-

Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs / Melody Petersen. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. - 432 p.; 24 cm.

"Sarah Crichton books."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creating disease -- Midwestern medicine show -- Chemical imbalance -- The early years -- An awakening : the age of the blockbuster -- Ghostwriters and secret studies -- "Neurontin for everything" -- Altered state -- Deadly doses.

9780374228279 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374228272 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2008002097


Drugs--Marketing.--United States

HD9666.5 / .P415 2008

338.4/761510973

QV 736 / P484o 2008